Time & Location
Mar 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – Mar 29, 2026, 4:00 PM
The Ditty Bag, 7 Roosevelt Ave, Mystic, CT 06355, USA
About the event
Meet Mary McFadden and the rest of the Alliance Leadership at our Repair Cafe Pop-up at the Ditty Bag!
Do you buy new clothes instead of repairing old ones? Do you throw out old sheets, curtains, tablecloths, and clothing instead of turning them into something new?? Patches are coming back into fashion!! Bring your otherwise wasted fabric to the Ditty Bag, the no-waste climate cafe at 7 Roosevelt Avenue in Mystic, in the afternoons of March 27, 28, and 29, for some relaxed transformation of waste into fashion!
Calling all volunteers who sew! Do you have buttons? A sewing kit? A sewing machine you can carry? Some time to sit and mend with us??
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